Tanzania closer to ratifying weapons agreement

Chadema Special Seat, Kunti Majala exchange views with the minister for Defence and National Service, Dr Hussein Mwinyi (right) the Chairman of the Parliamentarians for Global Action in Tanzania Mr Jasson Rweikiza after the defense minister officiate the Regional Africa Parliamentary workshop in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO | OMAR FUNGO

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  • The country signed the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction in 1972, but it has not ratified it since then. Speaking in Dar es Salaam yesterday during a Regional Africa Parliamentary Workshop, the chairman of the parliamentarians for Global Action in Tanzania Mr Jasson Rweikiza said the country was at the advanced stage where the ratification of the convection was already scheduled to be debated by the National Assembly this month.